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ANJANI KUMAR SHARAN
Murari Kumar Jha – Appellant
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Nalanda University – Respondent
Anjani Kumar Sharan, J.—Heard Md. Harun Quareshi, learned counsel for the petitioner, Mr. Anjani Kumar, learned Senior Counsel for the Nalanda University (hereinafter for the sake brevity ‘University’) and Mrs. Kanak Verma, learned Central Government Counsel.
2. By filing the present petition under Article 226 of the Constitution of India, primarily the petitioner has challenged the termination of his employment by the University issued vide impugned office order dated 18.02.2019 (No. NU/108/2014- 15/83) and for other ancillary reliefs.
3. The brief fact emanates from the case record is that on 19.12.2013, a job advertisement was issued inviting applications for various positions at University, including for Tenure Track positions as Assistant Professor. At that time, the petitioner was working as a Research Fellow in the Department of History, National University of Singapore, in Singapore. The petitioner holds two Ph.D. degrees, one from the Institute of History, Leiden University from Netherlands and another from the Center for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. The petitioner possesses considerable teaching experience and received several prizes and schol
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